LEE HALLETT, 2-74-4
OUTSIDE the York Hall last month, Johnny Greaves sucked on a cigarette and wondered where it had all gone wrong. The fighter he manages had won – and winning isn’t always good for business.
Greaves was always in the business of losing fights – he lost 96 of 100 – and he’s passing on his knowledge to Lee Hallett.
“There’s been many times when I’ve thought: ‘I could turn this lad over,’” said Hallett, “but then the phone won’t ring and I won’t get to my target. I will never get to 100 fights if I start winning too many…”
The target is actually 101 – one more than Greaves.
Johnny met Hallett when he was a schoolboy at East Ham ABC. “I was a senior and helped him out with training when he was a young kid,” said Greaves, also a southpaw from Canning Town.
The pair were reunited after Hallett bought a ticket for Greaves’ last fight, a points win over Dan Carr at the York Hall in September, 2013.
“I LIKE TO GIVE THEM A FIGHT, GIVE THEM A TEST”
“I looked up to Johnny,” said Hallett, a father of two
